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Tea Lady of Basantapur, Kathmandu
15 December 2015: Marking the #InternationalTeaDay by highlighting the entries on cuppa on the home page: https://t.co/gtYtR7OKUA [A day after the earthquake… this spot was under rubble.] Past entries on tea: Cuppa A Cup of Tea and Nizamuddin Our Cups of Tea (by Deepak) And one on coffee: A Lot Can Happen Over Coffee
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At the Base Camps of Annapurna and Machhapuchhre (Fish Tail)
I went to the base camps of two of the best-known mountains– the Annapurna South and the Machhapuchhre (also known as Mt Fish Tail)– for the first time last week (11-17 March). Here’s what I saw and felt. A Himalayan bowl: At the Annapurna Base Camp (4,130m, ABC) I felt like I was in a huge bowl.…
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Chitlang women
Was browsing through the snapshots taken in 2013 by the phone. Here are four from April- women and children of Chitlang village and a house and a dog. (More pics in this original post)
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And the Monkey Stole My Glasses in Shimla
Shimla’s monkeys are agressive and audacious. They don’t seem to miss an opportunity to intimidate, attack and assault humans. A huge Hanuman statue standing atop the Jakhu hill (of whose base the town Shimla is located, sort of) could be the source of their arrogance. That’s my assumption. Hanuman’s statue, way bigger than the Gandhi’s at…
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A Quick trip to Shimla
Shimla is a town of Monkeys who behave like Monkeys. But I will keep this album free of monkeys. I present here the atmosphere of the town- crowds and buildings- as I saw it. During my two-year stay in Delhi as a reporter I traveled to most of the famous ‘hill stations’ in north India.…
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chairmen of national planning commission, nepal
Saw these photos yesterday. Noticed anything out of order or interisting? These men have at least one thing in common: all of them have headed the National Planning Commission of Nepal. The man at the extreme right is the current boss.
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View from a hill near Kathmandu
This is what I see from where I am standing at this moment.
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Tricycles of Manila
When I first rode a tricycle in Manila I sat behind the driver the way men do in Nepal when they ride pillion on a motorcycle. I was told later by a Filipino friend of mine that that was the wrong way of sitting on a tricycle. The correct way, I was told, was to sit like…
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